BROWSING THE WEB WITH NOTES
Tracking Web pages with Page Minder
If you connect directly to the Internet and use Notes or Notes with Internet Explorer as your browser, Notes can monitor Web pages at certain intervals (every hour, for example) and mail you either a summary of what's been updated or the actual page with the updates. Notes monitors pages using the Page Minder feature.

To enable Page Minder

Page Minder is an agent that runs on your computer. Before you can enable it, you must choose File - Preferences - User Preferences, click the Basics tab, and under Startup options check the Enable scheduled local agents check box. Then follow these steps:

1. Open any Web page.

2. From the menu, choose Actions - Internet Options.

3. Click the Page Minder tab.

4. Select how often to search for updates.

5. Select whether to receive an e-mail summary or the actual page when updates are found.

6. Enter the names of people who will receive the message.

7. Click "Enable Page Minder."

8. Click Save and Close.

Tip To disable Page Minder, repeat Steps 1 -- 3 and 7 -- 8, clicking "Disable Page Minder" in Step 7.

To specify a particular page for tracking

You can specify certain pages for tracking by adding them to the Page Minder folder. To add a page to the Page Minder folder:

1. Open the page.

2. Choose Actions - Move to Folder.

3. Select the Page Minder folder (located in the Web Bots folder).

4. Click Add.

To stop updates on a particular page

1. Choose File - Database - Open.

2. Select Local in the Server box (it's the default).

3. Select Personal Web Navigator in the Database list.

4. Click Open.

5. Select the Page Minder folder (located in the Web Bots folder).

6. Delete the page.

Tip Bookmark the Personal Web Navigator database for easy future access.

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